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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook

By : Yaroslav Pentsarskyy
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook

By: Yaroslav Pentsarskyy

Overview of this book

PowerShell is tightly integrated with SharePoint 2010, demonstrating an important alliance between the fastest growing collaboration and web publishing platform, and the latest task automation framework. The advantages of PowerShell and SharePoint integration help administrators and infrastructure specialists achieve everyday enterprise tasks more efficiently, and this book will ensure you get the most out of SharePoint configuration and management. When it comes to custom SharePoint 2010 solution configuration, creating robust PowerShell scripts is the best option for saving time and providing a point of reference as to the changes made in the server environment. This practical expert cookbook translates the most commonly found scenarios into a series of immediately usable recipes, allowing you to get up and running straight away with writing powerful PowerShell scripts for SharePoint. “Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook” focuses on a range of distinct areas of SharePoint administration, with expert recipes targeting unique business examples.You will learn exactly how solutions were achieved for managing SharePoint list settings with PowerShell, PowerShell configuration of SharePoint FAST Search, and more. You will also learn how to tailor the recipe to your own business needs.With this advanced cookbook in hand, you will be fully equipped with the source code as a starting point for creating your scripts in order to take advantage of the integration between SharePoint and PowerShell.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Windows PowerShell 2.0: Expert Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Creating new user profiles


Any custom and out-of-the-box feature in SharePoint 2010 is much more successful if it can provide more relevant and personal information to the user who is using it. For example, if I am logged in to the corporate intranet in an overseas company branch, I would like to see personalized, rather than generic information, shown to me in various parts of the site.

User profiles in SharePoint 2010 allow storing personalized of information about the user which can be retrieved by out-of-the-box and custom features. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can provision new user profiles on the site which are bound to existing Active Directory user accounts.

At the end of this recipe, you will be all set with the script allowing you to create multiple user profiles on your SharePoint 2010 system.

Getting ready

Assuming you have already set up your virtual development environment as described inChapter 1PowerShell Scripting Methods and Creating Custom Commands, we...